A SERIOUS car accident inspired a staff member at Avondale College to gain a Master of Education (Honours) after she became a victim of her own subject - pain management.
After the accident, associate librarian Rose-lee Power completed a pain management program following six months in hospital.
But far from improving her quality of life or easing her medical condition, she says the program made the injury worse.
As a result, the experience inspired the writing of her thesis, Chronic Pain Management and Adult Learning: Toward A Different Understanding.
The main finding from Rose-lee's qualitative study shows adult pain management programs offered in many hospitals in Australia are not education accredited and do not follow adult learning principles and methods.
"They claim to be educational but come under the guise of medical treatment," says Rose-lee.
"Learning is not sustained."
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